• xaber
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Topic: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

Please! I am really going nuts! Help me!
I installed vbox from the site. Installed xp sp1.
Then I added my user to vboxusers and added the famous line for usbfs in /etc/fstab.
I rebooted and started xp: now, in fact, the usb devs are visible (and not greyed out like before). But when I click them, nothing happens! Crap!
So tried another thing: created the usbfs group and added me; I modified the usbfs line in fstab changing the gid (from 118 of vboxusers to 1001 of usbfs): reboot and start xp and same result! Double crap!

I also tried adding a line to /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh: domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=118,devmode=664.
I start xp: nothing again! Triple crap! Please help me!

I added the usb filters in virtualbox and I can see the usb drive in the vbox menu, but if I clicke them, windows does nothing!

Help please! I'm going nuts!

Last edited by xaber (2010-07-30 21:07:08)

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

Hi Xaber,

Have you installed VirtualBox Guest Additions in your XP virtual machine?

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

  • xaber
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Re: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

Yeah... Argh! But after doing the procedures I descripted...

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

Now: I read in the wiki that to use usb in virtualbox I have to have read and write acces to the usb filesystem (usbfs). How can I do or check this?

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

But, also, it is said that newer distrosenable vboxusers users to use usb devices on vbox without the nees of havin direct access to usbfs. Infact, it is said that to have this kind of access, you must be part of the group usbusers or similar, whihc does not exist on #!.
It says you need only to be a vboxusers member! So how to use usb? I am a member of vboxusers!

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtualbox and usb

OK guys! The problem was the sp1, which strangely does not support usb2.0. Sp3 solved the problem!
For future references, the only things needed to run usb drives is to be part of the vboxusers group, at least for the most recent distros! It is not even needed to add the famous usbfs (ubuntu style) in fstab.

Greetings pals!

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